Scientist biography project
Reading the Best Biographies of All Time
For biographies I’ve read, ratings are on a scale of 0 to 5 stars with equal weight given to my subjective assessment of: (1) how entertaining the biography proved to be and (2) the biography’s historical value.
Links to third-party reviews may be provided for biographies I’ve not yet read. If I’m missing a great biography in the Science category that you’ve read, please let me know! Last updated October 11, 2016.
| Brunelleschi | Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King | 2000 |
| Copernicus | The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich | 2004 |
| Curie, Madame | Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie | 1936 |
| da Vinci, Leonardo | Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King | 2012 |
| da Vinci, Leonardo | Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl | 2004 |
| Darwin, Charles | Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist by Adrian Desmond | 1991 |
| Edison, Thomas | Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson | 1959 |
| Einstein, Albert | Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson | 2007 |
| Euler, Leonard | Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment by Ronald Calinger | 2015 |
| Faraday, Michael | The Electric Life of Michael Faraday by Alan Hirschfeld | 2006 |
| Feynman, Richard | Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick | 1992 |
| Galileo | Galileo by J. L. Heilbron | 2010 |
| Hawking, Stephen | Stephen Hawking: A Biography by Kristine Larsen | 2005 |
| Maxwell, James | The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell by Basil Mahon | 2003 |
| Newton, Isaac | Isaac Newton by James Gleick | 2003 |
| Oppenheimer, Robert | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird | 2005 |
| Oppenheimer, Robert | Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside the Center by Ray Monk | 2012 |
| Salk, Jonas | Jonas Salk: A Life by Charlotte Jacobs | 2015 |
| Wright brothers | The Wright Brothers by David McCullough | 2015 |
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Best singer biography Abdurraqib’s book is part history, part memoir. Abdurraqib was born in 1983, so he was 7 when A Tribe Called Quest began and 15 upon its 1998 breakup.